Joan E. Eatock Joan E. Eatock i(A80419 works by)
Born: Established: 1936 Redcliffe, Redcliffe area, Brisbane Outer North, Brisbane, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 1 y separately published work icon Delusions of Grandeur : A Family's Story of Love and Struggle Joan E. Eatock , Alice Springs : Jukurrpa Books , 2003 Z1095360 2003 single work biography

'Lucy Eatock is raised and educated by a respectable white family, but becomes an outcast when she chooses to marry a man of her own colour, a traveling boxer and wild jackeroo. Born in a camp tent, her son Roderick struggles valiantly in the back blocks of New South Wales and on the mean streets of Sydney for what he knows is right. He watches as those around him wrestle with poverty, racism and cruel injustice but are ultimately beaten down. He educates himself and during the heat of the struggles against mass-evictions and homelessness, falls in love with Elizabeth, a sassy, educated emigre from Scotland. Eventually the social barriers Roderick confronts and the psychological defences he constructs to survive them build to a pressure-cooker intensity.' (Source: IAD Press website)

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